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Message from: Steve Smith (SteveSmith@XC.Org)
About: FW: Les Noms Nhaibitent Nulle Part

Fri, 5 Feb 1999 09:37:23 -0500


From: John Badenhorst [mailto:johnbad@mweb.co.za]
<mailto:[mailto:johnbad@mweb.co.za]>=20

I suggest you e-mail Baba Hama/Fran=E7oise Kabor=E9 (FESPACO) at
sg@fespaco.festival.bf <mailto:sg@fespaco.festival.bf> OR Soul=E9mane
Ouedraogo (T=E9l=E9vision Nationale du Burkina) at =
aline.koala@mcc.gov.bf
<mailto:aline.koala@mcc.gov.bf> If they cannot help you, there will
certainly be a copy in the Cin=E9math=E8que Africaine in Ouagadougou - =
the
contact person is (was?) ARDIOUMA SOMA on fax (226) 31.25.09 Good luck!
JOHNBAD=20

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> A propos of the Dani Kouyate film: my library has it, but I'm
looking for
a
> related film called LES NOMS NHAIBITENT NULLE PART (THE NAMES
DON'T LIVE
> ANYWHERE) made by a Belgian woman, and starring Sotigui Kouyate as
a
griot
> who tries (unsuccessfully) to reconnect Africans in Europe with
their
> Sundiata narratives and inheritance. (The great Senegalese actor
Nar Sene
> plays one of them.) I'd like to be able to teach the two films
together,
> since they have the same guy playing the griot, but differ so
dramatically
> on how hard it is to recuperate that heritage. Do you have any
idea where
I
> could buy this film? I saw it (with English subtitles) at a
festival in
the
> U.S., but haven't been able to get any ordering info.

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